Well, the Lord works in mysterious ways. Dean never arrived, so I had the whole show to talk not only about the Black Nazarene — which I don’t know much of anyway — but atheism and freethinking in general.

But on second thought I didn’t get the entire hour. When I was about to say something particularly blasphemous, God cut the power.

Still it’s the second longest broadcast of blasphemy in Philippine radio. (Second to John Paraiso’s old radio show, of course 🙂 ) Enjoy!

Jesus is real and in him is the truth . that thing cannot be compared to the everlasting God who created us. why waste your time worshiping idols..God is spirit therefore we must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Please do not post your garbage on iTunes. Have some respect for other people's devotions. Can you at least articulate your title with more esteem? You're not going to change people's thinking if you're going to bash them with your petty language. Or are you just "stupid" yourself?

Please do not post your garbage here. Have some respect for other people’s lack of respect for your devotions. Can you at least articulate your comment with more sense? You’re not going to change people’s thinking if you’re going to bash them with your petty thoughts. Or are you just "stupid" yourself?

Hey thanks for posting this, just finished listening (1 hour!) I like your voice and the radio girl's too. Clear and good on the ears (come to think of it, I feel kinda sleepy…). Anyway, I think religion is some kind of solution to people's psychological needs. The need to hope, the need to feel meaningful, the need to feel strongly for something, the need to feel devoted to something – those are psychological needs, psychological weaknesses some would say, that some people have which cannot be resolved or are difficult to resolve by atheism or freethinking. Religion is a way of resolving those needs (or feeding off of them? lol). Maybe that's why miss radio girl cannot find herself fully comfortable with atheism no matter how rational she wants to be, because maybe she has some psychological need to feel more meaningful or something which outweighs the need to feel smart (which is one thing she likes about atheists). Like she said, she wishes to have something to devote herself to, to the point of neglecting convenience. Maybe she should try having a child or getting a pet?

I think atheism cannot be a good solution to people like the devotees of the Black Nazarene who have little to cling to. They have that psychological need to hope for miracles and the luxury of atheism cannot help that. In fact, I think atheism is the result or some kind of effect of overcoming those psychological weaknesses.

Hmmm maybe I should make some kind of article about "the luxury of atheism".

I agree. And atheism has a bad rep, at least for those not in-the-know.

Religion is good for the purpose Sathepine mentioned, the psychological part. But that can also achieved with freethinking. An individual can strongly believe in something/someone more logical, and that will serve as his/her psychological push.